The Racial Equality Proposal proposed by Japan at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Whatever politic purpose of Japan, persecuted people, like black people in America, Irish, Liberian and so on, thanked to this proposition. sdh-fact.com/essay-article/…
"Japan became one of the world's only countries where Jews could find refuge from the Holocaust. This occurred despite Japan's alliance with Nazi Germany."
Chiune Sugihara
"Hillel Levine's 1996 book, In Search of Sugihara, suggests this remarkable figure, motivated, it seems, solely by kindness and humanity, may have saved as many as 10,000 lives."
Yoshitsugu Tatekawa
"In fact, according to researchers, around the same as Friedmann’s visit to the embassy, Tatekawa received an order from the Foreign Ministry to halt such acts.
Japan was fearful of possible consequences, given that it was allied with Germany.
Nonetheless, even after issuing the visa for Friedmann, Tatekawa continued to issue travel documents for Jews in lieu of visas, enabling them to seek refuge through Japan." japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/1…
Seishiro Itagaki
"On December 6, 1938, Itagaki proposed a national policy in accordance with Hakko Ichiu (Expansion) at the Five Ministers Conference, which was the Japanese highest decision making council, ...
and the council made a decision of prohibiting the expulsion of the Jews in Japan, Manchuria, and China as Japanese national policy."
Yosuke Matsuoka
... on December 31, 1940, Japanese Foreign Minister told a group of Jewish businessmen, "I am the man responsible for the alliance with Hitler, but nowhere have I promised that we would carry out his anti-Semitic policies in Japan. ...
This is not simply my personal opinion, it is the opinion of Japan, and I have no compunction about announcing it to the world."
Norihiro Yasue
"Inuzuka and Yasue, by then colonel and the liaison with the Jewish Far East Council from 1938 to 1940, formulated the Japanese policy permitting the entry of Jewish refugees from Germany into Shanghai."
Setsuzo Kotsuji
"his advocacy to government officials led to extensions on the short term Sugihara visas the Jewish refugees entered Japan on, and he later provided further support to help them resettle where they would be safe from Nazi persecution." la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/Setsuz…
Hideki Tojo
The German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop accused that Higuchi's act thwarted the plan and ideal of Hitler. Tojo spurned this demand by saying, "it's the right thing to do from a humanitarian point of view."
About the Racial Equality Proposal, He said, "I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States."
Shunsaku Kudo and Sir Samuel Falle
In 1942 the Encounter was dodging enemy gunfire while escorting the Exeter through the Java Sea, and no one on board could imagine receiving kind treatment from the Japanese usni.org/magazines/proc…
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Famous for the American film "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Pearl Habor Attack was really a cowardly sneaking attack?
- True meaning of "Remember Pearl Harbor" -
Read this thread.
At first, the fact cannot be ignored and must be known is that:
As Venona records showed, there were many Soviet spies in Japan and in U.S. and maneuvered to break out the war between them.
Read this thread.
In many case, the former ruler must be executed or exiled.
However, in the case of the annexation ...
In the treaty of annexation, their position as a royal family was guaranteed, monetary aid was provided.
1) For instance from 1935 to 1940(昭和十年~十五年), (李王朝歳費)1.8 million JPY ( ≒ 18 million current JPY) was given to Korean royal family every year. 2) Gojong(高宗) demanded impudently a further aid. 3) Sunjong(純宗) employed best cook.
Winston Churchill was a terrible racist.
He said, "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
He caused Bengal famine in 1943, consequently 3 million died.